''Ramalina'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

of greenish

fruticose A fruticose lichen is a form of lichen fungi that is characterized by a coral-like shrubby or bushy growth structure. It is formed from a symbiotic relationship of a photobiont such as green algae or less commonly cyanobacteria and one, two or ...

lichen A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.commonly called strap lichensField Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, or cartilage lichens.

Apothecia An ascocarp, or ascoma (), is the fruiting body ( sporocarp) of an ascomycete phylum fungus. It consists of very tightly interwoven hyphae and millions of embedded asci, each of which typically contains four to eight ascospores. Ascocarps are mo ...

are lecanorine. Lichen spot tests on the cortex are K−, C−, KC+ dark yellow, and P−. It is in the

Ramalinaceae The Ramalinaceae are a family of lichenized fungi in the order Lecanorales. The family name is synonymous with the name ''Bacidiaceae''. Species of this family have a widespread distribution. Genera *'' Aciculopsora'' *''Adelolecia'' *''Arthr ...

and in the suborder

Lecanorineae ''Lecanorineae'' are a suborder of pezizomycetes fungi, commonly known as the lichens and rostrate asci. Families * Aphanopsidaceae * Byssolomataceae * Carbonicolaceae * Catillariaceae * Cetradoniaceae *Cladoniaceae * Crocyniaceae * ...

Distribution

The genus has a widespread distribution. A 2008 estimate placed more than 240 species in ''Ramalina''.

Species

*'' R. ailaoshanensis'' – China *'' R. alisiosae'' – Canary Islands *'' R. americana'' – North America *'' R. andina'' – Venezuela *'' R. arabum'' *'' R. arsenii'' – Europe *'' R. azorica'' –

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*'' R. australiensis'' *'' R. banzarensis'' *'' R. breviuscula'' *'' R. caespitella'' – Australia *'' R. calcarata'' – East Africa *'' R. calicaris'' *'' R. canalicularis'' *'' R. canariensis'' *'' R. cannonii'' – Peninsular Malaysia *'' R. capitata'' *'' R. carminae'' *'' R. celastri'' *'' R. chihuahuana'' – Mexico *'' R. chiguarensis'' – Venezuela *'' R. chondrina'' *'' R. cinereovirens'' – South Korea *'' R. confirmata'' *'' R. coreana'' – Southeast Asia *'' R. corymbosa'' *'' R. crispata'' – Venezuela *'' R. cuspidata'' *'' R. darwiniana'' – Galapagos *'' R. dilacerata'' *'' R. disparata'' – Africa *'' R. dissimilis'' – Tanzania *'' R. dumeticola'' – Africa *'' R. europaea'' – Europe *'' R. exiguella'' *'' R. exilis'' – Japan *'' R. farinacea'' *'' R. fastigiata'' *'' R. fecunda'' – Africa *'' R. filicaulis'' – Australia *'' R. fimbriata'' – East Africa *'' R. fissa'' *'' R. fragilis'' – Galapagos *'' R. fraxinea'' *'' R. furcellangulida'' – Galapagos *'' R. gallowayi'' *'' R. geniculatella'' –

Saint Helena Saint Helena () is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote volcanic tropical island west of the coast of south-western Africa, and east of Rio de Janeiro in South America. It is one of three constitu ...

*'' R. glaucescens'' *'' R. gloriosensis'' –

Scattered Islands The Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean (french: Îles Éparses or ''Îles Éparses de l'océan Indien'') consist of four small coral islands, an atoll, and a reef in the Indian Ocean, and have constituted the 5th district of the French Sout ...

*'' R. hengduanshanensis'' *'' R. hivertiana'' – Scattered Islands *'' R. hoehneliana'' *'' R. hyrcana'' *'' R. inclinata'' *'' R. inflata'' *'' R. intermedia'' *'' R. intestiniformis'' – Korea *'' R. ketner-oostrae'' – Saint Helena *'' R. krogiae'' –

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...

*'' R. labiosorediata'' – North America *'' R. lacera'' *'' R. leiodea'' *'' R. litorea'' *'' R. lopezii'' – Venezuela *'' R. luciae'' *'' R. mahoneyi'' *'' R. maritima'' – Africa *'' R. marteaui'' – Scattered Islands *'' R. menziesii'' *'' R. meridionalis'' *'' R. microphylla'' – Venezuela *'' R. nervulosa'' *'' R. obtusata'' *'' R. osorioi'' *'' R. pacifica'' – Japan *'' R. panizzei'' *'' R. peruviana'' *'' R. pollinaria'' *'' R. polyforma'' – Galapagos *'' R. polymorpha'' *'' R. portuensis'' *'' R. psoromica'' – Mexico *'' R. qinlingensis'' – China *'' R. quercicola'' *'' R. reducta'' – Africa *'' R. reptans'' – Hawaii *'' R. rigidella'' – Saint Helena *'' R. ryukyuensis'' – Japan *'' R. sanctae-helenae'' – Saint Helena *'' R. santanensis'' – Venezuela *'' R. sarahae'' –

Channel Islands (California) The Channel Islands () are an eight-island archipelago located within the Southern California Bight in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California. The four Northern Channel Islands are part of the Transverse Ranges geologic province, a ...

*'' R. seawardii'' – Hong Kong *'' R. siliquosa'' *'' R. sphaerophora'' – Korea *'' R. stevensiae'' –

Norfolk Island Norfolk Island (, ; Norfuk: ''Norf'k Ailen'') is an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, directly east of Australia's Evans Head and about from Lord Howe Island. Together with ...

*'' R. stoffersii'' *'' R. subdecumbens'' – South Korea *'' R. subfarinacea'' *'' R. subfraxinea'' *'' R. subrotunda'' – Hawaii *'' R. tapperii'' – East Africa *'' R. tenella'' *'' R. tenuissima'' – Venezuela *'' R. throwerae'' – Hong Kong *'' R. tovarensis'' – Venezuela *'' R. translucida'' – East Africa *'' R. tropica'' – Australia *'' R. unilateralis'' *'' R. usnea'' *'' R. whinrayi'' – Australia *'' R. wirthii'' – Azores *'' R. yokotae'' – Japan *'' R. zollingeri'' File:Ramalina farinacea1.jpg, ''Ramalina farinacea'' File:Ramalina fastigiata1.jpg, ''Ramalina fastigiata'' File:Saare-rihmsamblik.JPG, '' Ramalina fraxinea'' File:A lichen - Ramalina siliquosa - geograph.org.uk - 933106.jpg, ''

Ramalina siliquosa ''Ramalina siliquosa'', also known as sea ivory, is a tufted and branched lichen which is widely found on siliceous rock (geology), rocks and stone walls on coastlands round the British Isles, occasionally slightly inland. It grows well above th ...

'' (with crustose lichen around it)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q662144 Lecanorales genera Lichen genera Taxa described in 1809 Taxa named by Erik Acharius